I was disappointed to see a case in the news today of a young mother forced by the courts to pay a £185 ‘fine’ for ‘overstaying’ her allotted time in a town centre car park. Cases of this sort arise quite regularly and the people involved invariably end up paying hefty charges levied under the misnamed ‘Protection of Freedoms Act’ quite unnecessarily. Prior to the Protection  of Freedoms Act, most of the car parks involved…